Did T.I. Put his Career in Jeopardy With Arrest?

*After finishing a sentence for weapons charges earlier this year, T.I. was poised to have the comeback of the fall.

The multiplatinum rapper starred in the nation’s No. 1 movie, recently married his longtime girlfriend, taped a music special for VH1 and was wrapping up a new album. But after an arrest Wednesday in California, there are questions about whether he’s returning to the music charts – or prison.

The Grammy-winning hitmaker, who is on three years of probation, was taken into custody with wife Tameka “Tiny” Cottle on suspicion of possessing methamphetamines after police pulled over their Maybach in West Hollywood. They were released on $10,000 bail early Thursday.

While charges have yet to be filed, the case has the potential to put one of music’s top names in behind bars yet again.

“We’re not making any observations at this time,” said Ed Garland, a defense attorney for T.I. “This is an unfortunate occurrence, and we do not know what the outcome will be.”

His music label, Atlantic Records, also said it “would be premature to speculate about the current situation given that there is an ongoing investigation of this matter.”

So the cracka law says that you can’t smoke weed and it’s illegal by them, but as root doctors we been doin’ weed for centuries. Far as I’m concerned it’s a big todo about nothin. Yeah, he made an illegal turn, that is what it should be about. They had no right to search his car either. I’ll wait and see before I jump to some concocted conclusions.

I’m on T.I.’s side Mothership but do you know the law? The cops did to have right to search his car. The police “allegedly” smelled weed. That’s called “probable cause”. They can search your car with or without your permission with probable cause. Hey, that Master’s in Criminal Justice is coming in handy!

I agree – many of them make extremely poor choices – these are grown men, but, they act like they 15 mentally by their decisions. Yeah I understand about pot and how miniscule having and smoking it may be, but, it is still AGAINST THE LAW and until it becomes legal, don’t u think u would use some common sense about it? U already a target driving around why poor gasoline on a fire already lit?

TI you just got out of prison, you have been on probation before and incarcerated too, so you know the drill, come on now you cannot be that clueless. DANG! PS. your wife Tiny looks like she is clueless so what do you expect from her. lol.

no cause for alarm folks, our unique penal system will allow for him, like little Wayne, to tweet, twitter, skype and facebook his music to the masses while in the clink. and tiny will continue to be the thick-orange-peel-skin-troll(sorry you can’t get time for being ugly)

Marijuana seriously seriously needs to be decriminalized. This is ridiculous. Yes, I know that it is a law and it wasn’t the wisest thing to do considering the circumstances. However, the bigger point is this did not harm anyone or anything. Please come Nov., California will lead the way to decriminalization.

I agree with the other posts; however, even if marijuana was legal, it would still be illegal to smoke and drive, as it should be. So he would still be in some level of trouble because a DUI can land someone who’s on probation back in jail

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